'Cash and carry' politics
BBC
14 January 2011
By Caroline Duffield
President Goodluck Jonathan's victory tears up a gentlemen's agreement within the PDP of alternating power between the north and south
In the language of Nigerian negotiation, the matter of who ruling People's Democratic Party delegates chose as their presidential candidate for April's election is "settled".
Cash has been dispensed; favours and gifts have been granted; and political support given in return.
Thousands of smiling PDP members - their wallets swollen with booty - are packing up to leave the jamboree in the capital, Abuja, that commentators call "the cash and carry" primary.
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